Chapter 24 The difference between Man and Han

During the civil war between the Taiping Army, the Nian Army and the Qing Army, the British and French allied forces came.Xianfeng did not "resist the outside world first", but resisted, but he overestimated his strength and loved face, so he had no choice but to cede the land and pay compensation, and then died. Xianfeng took it easy, but left a big mess for his wife. For Cixi, after the eight ministers of Gu Ming were dealt with, the next focus of work was naturally to deal with Hong Xiuquan and Zhang Luoxing. Cixi knew in her heart that the best way to secure the seat under her buttocks was to pacify the Taiping Army and the Nian Army. To quell these peasant uprisings, she had to use the right people, the most capable ministers, to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on her behalf. and Nian Army.

Cixi's thinking is correct, but the few ministers she fancy are not Manchus, but Han Chinese. There are two big problems in this. The first question is that Cixi is not sick, why did she let the Manchu generals use it, but promoted the Han people? The answer is simple, there are no generals and no soldiers available. The regular army of the Qing Dynasty-the Eight Banners of the Manchu Army, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the Green Battalion reorganized by the surrendered Ming Army, except for the "Senglingeqin" Mongolian cavalry with strong combat effectiveness, were defeated by the British and French Allied Forces and the Nian Army. In addition to the remnants, the other regular armies, like many regular armies at the end of the dynasty, were completely corrupted.

Aside from smoking opium, most of them are not qualified soldiers. The reason why they serve as soldiers is to eat and earn money. In other words, they put a lot of energy into their second career.Those with a good conscience help others and start a small business, while those with a bad conscience extort and accept bribes, just like some unscrupulous policemen today practice extortion and extortion in the name of going on the road to investigate cases in order to capture income. An army that doesn't know what to fight for, but only knows how to eat and earn money, of course has no fighting spirit, and an army without fighting spirit certainly cannot win battles.Therefore, the British and French allied forces drove straight in, so Jiangnan Daying and Jiangbei Daying became the stepping stones for Yang Xiuqing and Li Xiucheng to reach the pinnacle of life.

The second problem is the difference between Manchu and Han.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the difference between Manchu and Han was a pain that could not be faced calmly in the hearts of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. Let’s take a look at some major events after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs: 1. Murder and shaving.Keep your hair but not your hair, keep your hair but not your head; ten days in Yangzhou, three massacres in Jiading. 2. The unprecedented literary inquisition in history. Anyone who dared to use words to nostalgic for the Han Dynasty to insinuate the Qing Dynasty, no matter whether it was intentional or unintentional, was killed.

3. Since the past dynasties, the taxation policy that has exploited the common people lightly: breed people and never increase taxes. From a technical point of view, these three things are big sticks and sweet dates; from a psychological point of view, the mentality of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty revealed by these three things is inferiority complex. There is no way not to feel inferior. Let’s look at a set of figures and compare them to understand more clearly. The Eight Banners of Manchuria has a population of one million, but how many people are there in the Han nationality?Inaccurate statistics at the end of the Ming Dynasty showed that it was around 150 million.Let's round out the odds: what a difference 100 million vs. 1 million.

Therefore, the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty was very inferior, and it was this strong inferiority complex that gave birth to a famous unspoken rule: to suppress the Han people and prevent them from holding military and political power. But they were wrong, really wrong, so wrong that they died because of it. They don't understand that if they want to rule China, where the Han nationality is the majority, they must integrate into the Han nationality as a whole.When you can't beat it, get into it.If you make it your enemy, your potential enemy will eventually become your enemy. Although Cixi did not understand this, but as the actual helm of this crumbling dynasty, Cixi had the responsibility to bring the precarious Qing Dynasty back from the brink of death!

In this world, there are not many people who dare to treat a live horse as a doctor for a dead horse, but Cixi was one of them when she was young.She said to herself: I can choose to give up, but never give up the choice!When I was weak, I was able to overthrow the "eight ministers", so am I still afraid of using the Han people after I have power? ! Cixi decided to be arbitrary and follow her own way to save the Qing Dynasty. She wanted to make an exception and reuse capable Han people. Her troubles soon came. The Manchu relatives held hands and jumped out in time: You use the Han people, isn't this going to ruin the country of the ancestors for more than two hundred years? !Never!

Cixi despised these conservative and stupid guys from the bottom of her heart, and her answer was indifferent but firm: You don't need them, it's ok, then please go to the front to clean up the mess! The words came out, and there was silence...